Image ethics : the moral rights of subjects in photographs, film, and television /

Image ethics : the moral rights of subjects in photographs, film, and television / edited by Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, and Jay Ruby. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1988. - xx,382p. ; 24cm - Communication and society . - Communication and society. .

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Introduction: A moral pause / Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, and Jay Ruby -- The tradition of the victim in Griersonian documentary /Brian Winston --Direct Cinema and the myth of informedconsent: the case of Titicut Follies / Carolyn Anderson and Thoomas, W. Benson -- Access and consent in public photography, Lisa Henderson -- Ethics and professionalism in documentary film-making / Robert Aibel -- Ethics and perception of ethics in autobiographical film / John Stuart, Katz and Judith Milstein Katz -- Images as property / John David Viera -- A study in multiple forms of bias / Thomas Beauchamp and Stephen Klaidman

A collection of essays on the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film and television. It examines the conflicts between the subject's right to privacy, the public's right to know, and the film-maker's right as an artist.

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Portraits--Law and legislation--United States
Mass media--Law and legislation--United States
Privacy, Right of--United States
Portraits--Law and legislation
Communication studies
Ethics & moral philosophy